Word: saneness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was no doubt that in April 1965, in San Antonio, Raymond Sledge shotgunned his ex-wife and her husband to death in front of witnesses. The jury's only problem was to decide whether he was sane or insane. Two psychiatrist witnesses, Dr. Alfred Hill and Dr. James Paul McNeil!, agreed that he was in a paranoid state, that he had been and still was insane. Dr. Hill said that he was not treatable, was potentially dangerous, and "should not be permitted to have freedom again in his adult life." Dr. McNeill warned that under treatment. Sledge would...
...previous opinion and testified that Sledge "is, today, not a potentially dangerous criminal." The hearing ended with a hung jury, and another was held this month. At that one. Dr. McNeill also changed his mind. Forgetting his warning, he stated that Sledge was now of sound mind and sane. No contradictory testimony was offered by any state witnesses, and the jury had little choice but to free the killer. Sane enough at least not to push his luck, Sledge immediately left the state...
...forum from which to endorse or denounce the course of U.S. policy. Not so with the nation's private citizens who are critical of the war. Lacking an organized, effectual medium through which to voice their protests, dissenters ranging from Maoists to hippies, from middle-aged suburbanites in SANE to adolescent hotspurs in the Students for a Democratic Society have stormed Pentagon and draft board, marched and picketed and advertised. Already infected with malefic characters whose political education ended with 19th century nihilism as updated by Che Guevara, the peace movement has too often degenerated into caterwaul and caricature...
...rest of director Mary Belle Feltenstein's cast is not up to their standard. Bob Barnard is weak as Mortimer, the sisters' drama-critic nephew. The part is very difficult. Mortimer has to be the sane man in a houseful of lunatics and cadavers, registering a new variety of horror or shock every time a grisly surprise is sprung on him. But Barnard simply hasn't the range of expression he needs to make the most...
...around the time of the crime. In his charge, the judge reminded the jury that "voluntary intoxication by alcohol or drugs" is no defense. The jury nonetheless found him not guilty by reason of insanity. A series of psychiatric tests will now determine whether or not he is currently sane enough to go free...